John McCormack sings "Then you'll remember me, " from Balfe's The Bohemian Girl. 1916.
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Uploaded by EdmundStAustell on Feb 21, 2010
This is a pure example of Victorian music and sensibility. McCormack's rendering of the lovely old aria is pefect, and captures the earnest, albeit finger-wagging, sense of morality and propriety so characteristic of the age.
Michael W. Balfe's opera was first performed in London in 1842, and , musically speaking, is absolutely a product of its time, even though its narrative inspiration would seem to be an old Cervantes story, La Gitanilla, an "exemplary novel" of the kind made popular by the great Spanish author, and which charmed the urbanites of earlier centuries who took their pleasure in pastoral romances.
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Dos anyone know if and where I could buy a dvd of the opera The Bohemian girl? The best one that is?
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Yes, but so far surpasses any victorian performance of any song! Please check out John McCormack's 1928 version of I hear you calling me. It is truly life changing!
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Simply beautifu!. And the way he can so effortlessly reach down and give Caruso what for, is SO Cool!! This song and his I Hear You Calling Me from 1918 are two of my faves ever.
murraymae 4 months ago
@murraymae Mine too! Just love them both! Thanks for the comment!
EdmundStAustell 4 months ago
Never will there be another. What else is there to say?
olderngod 2 years ago
So true, so true..........
EdmundStAustell 2 years ago
Always one of my favorites. His diction is impeccable. Too bad that Victor, in its infinite wisdom did not bring him and Alma Gluck together for some duets.
Bivolari 2 years ago
That would have been a duo made in Heaven!
EdmundStAustell 2 years ago